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Tornadoes, historic flooding hit Minnesota and Wisconsin ⁠96%

4/18/2026, 4:45:15 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Framing Effect, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 52.2% saturation with 152 hits. Analysis detected 983 faulty-reasoning hits from 291 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 93.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠96% (763 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 95.50% of the video peer group.

A menacing funnel cloud swirling near Rochester, Minnesota. 
>> There's indeed a tornado on the ground. 
Sirens blaring as it tore through. 
>> These people watching the twister form in disbelief. 
>> Holy, look at those. 
>> Here you can see debris flying through the air. 
This is the first look at the damage. 
Trees toppled, home after home ripped to shreds. 
A suspected tornado also ripping through Lena, Illinois, leaving this trail of damage. 
It caps off a week of dangerous weather with at least 40 confirmed tornadoes across the country. 
Tonight, 38 million people at risk for severe weather. 
>> That's the airport. 
>> Including in Wisconsin, completely underwater where homes and buildings have been swallowed by historic flooding. 
A state of emergency is in effect. 
Flood water surrounding this home. 
A line of sandbags keeping it back for now. 
The swollen Wisconsin River is now threatening the town of Portage. 
We have many homes that are underwater. Um, many roads. 
>> This is the one road in and out of Blackhawk Park. 
You see it's already partially covered in some areas. 
Officials now ordering mandatory evacuations, saying they're concerned about the structural integrity of the levey. 
The fire chief telling me the situation is very serious. 
Water is seeping through the levey. 
>> Yep, water is seeping through. Yeah, we have the roads that are shut down are based uh based on water coming through the levey. 
This whole sidewalk was not covered yesterday. 
>> Oh. 
>> Aaron Daly worries if there's any more water, her home will be in trouble. 
>> I'm concerned if it gets any closer, we're going to probably have to start talking about doing some sandbags. 
Confirmation Bias
11.3%
Anchoring Bias
3.1%
Availability Heuristic
17.9%
Representativeness Heuristic
4.5%
Hindsight Bias
2.4%
Overconfidence Bias
11.3%
Framing Effect
27.1%
Loss Aversion
12%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
10%
Pessimism Bias
15.8%
Negativity Bias
51.2%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
4.5%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
19.6%
False Dilemma
9.3%
Slippery Slope
6.9%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
12%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
3.1%
Appeal to Emotion
52.2%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
13.1%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
15.5%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
5.8%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
26.1%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
3.1%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

291 words analyzed.

Analysis

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